Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
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Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
JGS-Montreal News |
This page shows recent and upcoming events, including meetings, workshops, and changes to the website of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal.
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| Date | Category | Description |
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| 2023-Dec-13 | Meeting |
Tackle Your Photos Today!
(Maureen Taylor)
Maureen Taylor is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification and preservation as well as on family history at genealogical and historical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the United States, England, and Canada. She is the author of several books and hundreds of articles, has appeared on television shows, and was featured in many publications. Recently, Maureen was a spokesperson for MyHeritage.com. She has written guidebooks, scholarly articles, and online columns for the Smithonian.com. Maureen is also a contributing editor to Family Tree Magazine.
A gift of a box or more of photographs can be seen as such an overwhelming task that it is easier to leave them for the next generation. The problem is that the next generation does not always know what to do with them either, so the images get thrown out. This presentation gives you tips to solving the problem. Maureen Taylor is on a mission to give you the skills to tackle those images. Before you can say "prevent picture puzzles," you will be on your way to identifying, preserving, and organizing your photos. Photo preservation used to be complicated and expensive, but that is no longer the case. A joint presentation of the Jewish Genealogical Societies of Toronto and Montreal. A special members-only event. A link will be sent to all members of both Societies prior to the meeting. No pre-registration required. |
| 2023-Dec-06 | Research |
Gary Perlman: Tracing Your Roots
Gary Perlman gave a presentation on "Tracing Your Roots" to the Chevra Sisterhood,
Wednesday, December 6, 2023, from 2-4pm.
He discussed what is needed to start research
and make extensive use of the JGS-Montreal Genealogy Dashboard
to research a member of the audience.
The free presentation was on Zoom-only;
registration was required.
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| 2023-Jul-19 | Research |
Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery Photographed and Indexed
The Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery has been photographed and indexed by
Gary Perlman and Jennifer Wiebe.
The data and photos will be submitted to the JewishGen.org JOWBR database
for their end-of-year update,
but in the meantime, visit our
Shaar Hashomayim home page,
which has a simple search capability for all records and photos.
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| 2023-May-31 | Research |
Spanish & Portuguese Cemetery Update
In 2014, Merle Kastner submitted 1393 burial records with photos of the Spanish and Portuguese cemetery on Mount Royal to JewishGen.org's JOWBR database. That data has been updated and enhanced and added to the JGS-Montreal.org cemetery pages. Thanks to the S&P cemetery, almost 200 new records have been added, and those and photos were just submitted to JOWBR at JewishGen.org. Records in the S&P include some of the oldest Jewish families in Canada, including about 50 from each of the Joseph and Hart families. The records include 7 born before 1800, and 8 centenarians born in the 1800s. Ten burials have profiles in the 1965 Who's Who in Canadian Jewry (search). |
| 2023-Apr-11 | Research |
JGS-Montreal member Gary Perlman interviewed
Ellin Bessner interviews Gary Perlman about his work documenting Montreal's Jewish cemeteries.
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| 2023-Jan-15 | Workshop |
Monthly Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshop
Our next Family Tree Workshop, hosted by genealogy guru Stanley Diamond,
will be held on Sunday, January 15 from 10 am to noon.
The workshop will feature another Tool Time mini-lesson, with our IAJGS award-winning webmaster Gary Perlman, this time demonstrating how to use the Quebec Civil Registry's Jewish records 1841-1918. The Zoom workshop, where you can ask your own questions, will be limited to 25 people The Zoom link and other details regarding live participation will be sent exclusively to our Workshop Email List. To subscribe, write to workshop@jgs-montreal.org. (No need to re-subscribe if you are already on the list) Note: We make our workshops available to members and non-members alike. If you find them useful, please consider becoming a member of JGS-Montreal to help us continue our work. |
| 2023-Jan-08 | Meeting |
In Conversation with Menachem Kaiser
(Menachem Kaiser)
award-winning author of
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure.
Please note early time for this member-only event: 1:30 PM
Menachem Kaiser's debut memoir,
Plunder,
won the 2022 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
and was named a New York Times' Critics Best Book of the Year.
It describes the author's quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland -
and the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that followed.
A joint presentation of the Jewish Genealogical Societies of Philadelphia and Montreal. A special members-only event, via Zoom (details to follow via email to members). |
| 2022-Nov-06 | Workshop | Monthly Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshop |
| 2022-May-24 | Research |
Kehal Israel Memorial Gardens Online for Research
Kehal Israel Memorial Park records have been submitted to
JewishGen.org's JOWBR database to help genealogical researchers interested in Jewish Montreal.
There is a
page
with all indexed and photographed sections.
Kehal Israel Memorial Park in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec is one of latest Montreal-area Jewish cemetery to be added to JewishGen.org's JOWBR database. Many thanks to Hymie London for his help obtaining permissions. Using data kindly provided by Kehal Israel, JGS-Montreal volunteers added over 72,000 data fields to 9630 burial records. Individual sections can be explored at JGS-Montreal.org/ki. As usual, JOWBR records link back to more detailed records with additional photos, obituaries, sources, etc. A new feature for this cemetery is that there are hundreds of links to older obituaries on Newspapers.com (no subscription required). |
| 2022-Apr-10 | Workshop | Monthly Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshop |
| 2022-Mar-10 | History |
New JGS-Montreal President
In part due to increasing demands on his time for projects such as JRI-Poland.org,
after over 25 years of service, Stanley Diamond has stepped down from his
position as President of JGS-Montreal.org.
Alan Greenberg has graciously accepted the position.
Stanley will continue to run the Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshops.
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| 2022-Feb-20 | Workshop | Monthly Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshop |
| 2021-Dec-06 | Research |
Map of Old Jewish Montreal
An old map with annotations about Jewish population.
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| 2021-Nov-11 | Research |
Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery Online for Research
Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery records (4800) have been submitted to
JewishGen.org's JOWBR database to help genealogical researchers interested in Jewish Montreal.
There is a
new page
with a simple search capability for all records.
Photographing of gravestones is planned for 2022.
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| 2021-Jun-01 | Newsletters |
Member Benefit: IAJGS Newsletters
Access to IAJGS chapter newsletters is a benefit of JGS-Montreal membership. We've gathered over 300 newsletters from 23 chapters and created a page: jgs-montreal.org/newsletters.html. The newsletters page is now public, but links to the PDF issues are password-protected, and only available with credentials shared with current members on our member-only mailing list. |